The past week or so has been pretty busy. With my job, working out, and socializing, I haven't had that much downtime. But, it looks like i might have a bit more of that coming to me in the next couple of days. Last night I was planning on going out to a club in Ft.Lauderdale. I had met some new, interesting people online and they invited me to check out the place. It sounded pretty cool and I was really looking forward to it. I got all dressed up and headed out onto the road; I didn't make it to the club.

Some idiot that was pulled onto the shoulder of the highway tried to merge back into traffic without looking behind him or getting up to speed first. Now, since he was going about 10 miles per hour, and the speed limit was 70, this caused a bit of a problem. The person he swerved in front of had to slam on their breaks, and I had to do the same. But my car didn't stop before slamming into the car in front of me. Yeah, looks like Warspite now has some battle scars. And by scars I mean the front-end is completely crushed. It looks like I got off pretty lightly myself. My right wrist got burned and cut-up a bit by the airbag, my chest got bruised by the seat-belt/airbag, and I got a little bump on the head, but otherwise I seem to be fine. With some luck I should be good as new in a few days.

I did manage get one stroke of luck already though. You see, that first driver was pulled over because he had been in a prior accident! The cop who responded to that one was still there, and he witnessed the whole incident, which is great for me. I know that I didn't do anything wrong, there was nothing else I could have done besides break as hard as I could. If I had tried to change lanes I probably would have hit someone else, or they would have hit me. So, I just had to ride it out. The cop put 100% of the blame for the accident on the first guy, and issued him a ticket as well. So, I should be in the clear insurance wise.

Hopefully everything will work out in the end.